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Originally Posted by RichMSN
I see a fair number of dunks in a season. Technicals in those situations call themselves. Calling one on this play in any games means the official went after it. If there was a chin-up, it wasn't that obvious to me.
Still waiting for someone to mention how calling a technical here betters the game.
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What does making the game "better" have to do with the call?
You call chin-up "T"s because the act is against the rules. Whether the player met the rules criteria needed to have a chin-up "T" though is strictly up to the judgment of the official. If you don't think it warrants a "T" under the rules, you don't call it. It's that simple. Some people watching the video think it should be a "T"; some don't. Hell, on this one I'd bet that you'd get different evaluators disagreeing on the call also, depending on their own personal judgment.
Whether calling the technical foul in this case actually "betters" the game though is irrelevant imo. In this case, if you don't call the "T", you do so because you didn't think that it was a "chin-up" in the first place. Personally, I put most "better the game" comments in the same hopper as "game interrupters". I think that both mantras are used by some officials (not you, Rich. I know better) as handy excuses to avoid calling righteous technical fouls.
Jmo.